I really cannot blame Breda for going this route:
I am now and forevermore going to be deleting comments by mikeb302000 because all he ever does is come here and try to stir up arguments. This is not a person who wants a real debate, or who can be swayed to a more 2A-friendly mindset. He’s a troll, despite all attempts to appear otherwise. He knows nothing about guns except he that he hates them, and us. He’s also been using my blog to link to his own posts in the comment section, seeking blog hits and attention and I simply won’t allow that.
It is that last bit which finally did it for me – MikeB302000 does not comment on weblogs in order to strike up conversations or engage in debates, he does it solely and simply to irritate the regular denizens of those weblogs sufficiently that they will follow him back to his own corner of the Cortex and engage him there. Consider the pattern: when he is not sycophantishly sucking up to those who seem as though they might be agreeing with him, MikeB302000’s comments are intrinsically offensive, vitriolic, insinuating, accusatory, and/or flat-out wrong (while simultaneously being coated in a saccharin-like wounded-martyr schtick); he almost never returns to the scene of the crime, and when he does, he almost never responds to any of the points brought up in his absence; and he comments almost excluslively on pro-rights/conservative/libertarian weblogs, with his few comments on anti-rights weblogs like his own consisting of little more than AOLv(“Me too!!11!1!!!one!!”);. All said, the trend clearly points towards a desperate ploy for attention and hits at his own weblog.
As such, a little while back, I informed MikeB302000 that this webpage would no longer allow links from him – while this webpage will accept effectively any and all comments, of any and all tone, language, or demeanor (so long as the comments in question do not break laws, in which case information concerning the comment and commenter will be given to the appropriate authorities, then the comments deleted), I will not tolerate spam in my comments or trackbacks, even if that spam is cloaked in something approximating a “useful” comment. Strangely, since instituting this policy and informing MikeB302000 of it, he has not commented here once (no doubt he will comment on this post, with an attempt at a convincing explanation, now that I have called him out).
In the end, a person’s weblog is their own personal property, and it is up to them as to what they will and will not tolerate – after all, property rights are only a step away from individual rights. A lot of anti-rights weblogs do not tolerate any comments at all, or they excessively “moderate” them, simpy because their authors were repeatedly having their nether regions handed to them on silver platters. However, there is a huge and substantial difference between disallowing any dissent, and squashing pointless spam – the former shows the weakness of one’s positions, while the latter is simply good house-keeping.
Speaking personally, I fully welcome the opportunity to expose any anti-rights advocate’s ignorance, incompetence, bigotry, or even criminal history, but that does not mean I have to or will welcome links from those anti-rights advocates, nor does it mean I have to or will allow my webpage to be used as a soapbox for them. I guess you can consider me a very early (as in before-the-fact) adopter of Weer’d’s pledge.
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“I guess you can consider me a very early (as in before-the-fact) adopter of Weer’d’s pledge.”
Yep, you’ve been well ahead of the curve on this douchebag!
Also your policy to remove all his hyperlinks was a brilliant experiment. Despite his many claims to be interested in various goals, when his ability to draw traffic to his site disappears his desire to discuss any issue vanishes.
I had a similar event over at my place when Senator Kennedy died. He left some smug bullshit, and I deleted it, but kept a soft copy to re-post if he complained.
He didn’t say anything, and simply never commented again except for two nice comments when my wife was in the hospital (I’ll give him credit where it’s due).
I dumped one other comment in the pledge post, but I have received no further comments.
Pretty obvious what he’s doing. Is there any better reason to not go to his blog than the fact that he wants us to do just that?
To be perfectly honest, I was almost hoping he would return after I passed down that edict… Sure, I would be proven wrong, but it would also indicate that there was some shred of desire for honest debate left in him.
Unfortunately, his entire abandonment of commenting here has indicated well and truly that he does not honestly care about the conversation, he only cares about spreading his own version of reality as far and as wide as humanly possible, regardless of whether or not that reality is factual, honest, or supported by anything even approximating the truth.
I have no use for such people, but I certainly will allow them to expose themselves for what they are. I will not allow my paid-for webspace to be used as their own personal billboards, though.
Nope his only desire is to draw traffic.
Our desire is to sap that traffic.
Who do you think will win?
Honestly, I think he will hold on to what he has – it is very hard to expunge someone’s search engine rankings.
That said, “Google-bombing” still works, and works quite well at that. We certainly can interject our own particular webpages into search engine returns when someone goes looking for MikeB302000.
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